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Article: Professors could rescue newspapers.(OPINION)(Viewpoint essay)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 9, 2009
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Byline: Jonathan Zimmerman
New York -- The American newspaper is dead. Long live the American newspaper!
OK, so reports of the demise of daily journalism are a bit premature. But you can't open up the newspapers today without reading bad news about the papers.
Declining circulation and advertising revenues have forced newsrooms to trim their staffs, which means less real reporting. A few city papers have closed - the most recent victim was Denver's 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News - while others fill their pages with fluff pieces or wire-service stories. Put simply, it's getting too expensive to gather news.
So here's a novel idea: ...